- Title
- Medical Anthropology
- Creator
- Chenhall, Richard; Senior, Kate; Heil, Daniela
- Relation
- Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96778-9_4-1
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- This chapter explores the insights that medical anthropology contributes to studies of health, medicine, diseases, and the body. It describes how the traditional anthropological methods of participant observation, extended field work, and the study of kinship relations can reveal previously obscured patterns of disease transition. The chapter also discusses the development of rapid ethnographic assessment tools, which can be used when extended periods of fieldwork are not possible. It also considers the application of medical anthropological understanding to new global concerns from the rise of new pandemics to the complex global questions surrounding surrogacy. This chapter demonstrates the significance of the insights and language of medical anthropology into the cross-disciplinary world of health research. Medical anthropology provides for an important way in which understandings of health can be enriched, supporting a deeper level of analysis that examines the multiple levels of health in society.
- Subject
- medical anthropology; epidemics; theories of illness causation; participant observation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1494048
- Identifier
- uon:53690
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783030967789
- Language
- eng
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